jueves, 16 de agosto de 2012

After strengthening into a typhoon, Kai-tak continued its approach of the China coast on August 16, 2012. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra
satellite captured this natural-color image the same day. Kai-tak
lacked a clear eye, but had the apostrophe shape typical of strong
storms.The U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) forecast that
Kai-tak would continue its movement toward the west-northwest, passing
over China’s Leizhou Bandao peninsula and northern Vietnam on August 17
and 18. As of August 16, the JTWC reported, Kai-tak was located roughly
195 nautical miles (360 kilometers) south-southeast of Hong Kong, with
maximum sustained winds of 65 knots (120 kilometers per hour) and gusts
up to 80 knots (150 kilometers per hour). The JTWC forecast that Kai-tak
would strengthen somewhat over the next 12 hours before weakening
slightly.State news agency Xinhua reported that China’s national disaster
relief authority had issued an alert for Kai-tak on August 15. The
typhoon was expected to impact Guangdong and Fujian Provinces, and bring as much as 400 millimeters (16 inches) of rain to the Pearl River Delta west of Hong Kong.Typhoon Kai-tak was the fourth storm to make landfall in eastern China in just over two weeks, following Typhoons Saola,Damrey, and Haikui.

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Wildfires raged across Colorado
earlier this summer. Now California, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon are
feeling the heat. On August 14, 2012, numerous fires blazed across the
four western states, burning through everything from sagebrush to grass
to beetle-killed lodgepole pine forests.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image
of the fires on Aug 11, 2012. Red outlines indicate hot spots where
MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with
fires.Three large fires burned through coniferous forests in northern
California: the Reading fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park, the Chips
fire in Plumas National Forest, and the Fort Complex fire in Klamath
National Forest. The largest of the three (Chips) had consumed 57 square
miles (148 square kilometers) and was 12 percent contained by August
14. The Reading fire had consumed 37 square miles and was 15 percent
contained, whereas the Fort Complex Fire had burned 3 square miles and
was 10 percent contained. All three were ignited by lightning. In
Oregon, lightning also sparked the Barry Point fire, which had burned 68
square miles.In northern Nevada, the Holloway, Hansen, and Willow fires burned
through grass, brush, and sagebrush. The Holloway fire was the largest
and had burned 676 square miles by August 14. The Willow and Hanson
fires had burned 67 square miles and 20 square miles respectively. All
three were ignited by lightning on August 5.In Idaho, the Halstead fire burned through stands of beetle-killed
lodgepole pines in Salmon-Challis National Forest. It had consumed 81
square miles. To the south, the Trinity Ridge fire had burned about 58
square miles. Lightning ignited the Halstead fire on July 27, whereas
human activity started the Trinity Ridge fire.According to statistics compiled by the National Interagency Fire
Center, a total of 9,400 square miles had burned in the United States
through August 14. That was above the ten-year average for that date,
which was 7,750 square miles.

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